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The Laws of Hammurabi, King of Babylonia
The Laws of Hammurabi, King of Babylonia
The Laws of Hammurabi, King of Babylonia
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This book is a compilation of the Code of Hammurabi, the oldest collection of public laws that has yet been discovered. It is a reflection of the social conditions existing in Babylonia 4,000 years ago. The jurist of to-day will recognize in it most of the fundamental principles on which our social legislation is based. The code was given to us by the archaeological work of the distinguished explorer M. de Morgan who obtained the stele of Hammurabi upon which the code was engraved. This book is as translated by Dr. H. Otto Sommer.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherGood Press
Release dateApr 10, 2021
ISBN4064066463267
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    The Laws of Hammurabi, King of Babylonia

    Published by Good Press, 2022

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    Table of Contents

    IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

    The First Annual Volume, 1902

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    SUBSCRIBERS FOR 1902

    MARCH, 1903

    IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

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    The First Annual Volume, 1902

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    Subscribers for 1902 can have their copies rebound in Cloth, Red or Dark Green, for 75 cents; in Half Turkey Morocco Red or Black, for $1.75. The return postage on either binding is 40 cents.

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    HAMMURABI RECEIVING THE LAWS FROM THE SUN-GOD OF SIPPARA

    RECORDS OF

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    MARCH, 1903

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    THE LAWS OF HAMMURABI, KING OF BABYLONIA

    EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION

    THE ruins of Susa now being excavated by the distinguished explorer M. de Morgan have already yielded important results. He was led to undertake the excavation of ancient Susa from inscriptions found in the ruins of Babylon, from which he learned that many of the most important monuments of the Babylonian kings had been carried, as trophies of war by the Elamite kings, to their capital, Susa. When he left Egypt in 1888 it was for the purpose of recovering from the ruins of Susa these monuments. He had not been long at work in Susa before he found the stele of Narâm-Sin c. 3,800 B.C., which showed a high state of art in the Tigro-Euphrates valley nearly 6,000 years ago. This discovery was rapidly followed by others. The most important of which is the stele of Hammurabi, upon which was engraved his code of laws, c. 2,250 B.C.

    Two translations of this code have been made, one into French by Scheil, the assyriologist of the French Expedition to Persia, of which M. de Morgan is the director, and the other into German by Dr. Hugo Winckler. The following translation is from the latter by Dr. H. Otto Sommer and construed into legal phraseology by William Earl Ambrose, Esq.

    This code is the oldest collection of public laws that has yet been discovered. It is a reflection of the social conditions existing in Babylonia 4,000 years ago. The jurist of to-day will recognize in it most of the fundamental principles on which our social legislation is based.

    ​To the biblical student the Code of Hammurabi suggests at once a comparison with the Laws of Moses, which were written about 700 years later. But a comparative study of the two codes can only be made by one conversant with the conditions under which Moses promulgated his laws for the government of the Hebrew state and church. It has already been charged that Moses copied from the older code. It must be remembered that in every age and condition of society the great fundamental principles of justice have been and must remain the same. Therefore when we find these principles of justice existing in both the laws of Hammurabi and Moses, we recognize in them the eternal precepts of right and wrong in human society. Granting this, a further comparison between the two codes reveals in the latter, a higher and what is and may be claimed to be, a divine ordering for the higher and spiritual condition of man. That Moses was familiar with the Laws of Hammurabi and doubtless had studied them cannot be

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